Rhetoric
After reading the article in the Kit on Rhetoric, I came to the conclusion that it just said the same thing over and over again for 7 pages. The only important point that was put across was the definition of Rhetoric, which could have been done in one paragraph instead of 7 pages! The idea that I came away from it with is that Rhetoric is using words in an effective manner, so as to persuade the listener.
This is the 3rd or 4th wikipedia article we've read so far in class, and I'm not sure that I like them. I feel like the articles jump all over the place, from author to author, but in the end, they all end up saying the same things.
Maybe I'm way off on this. If I am, could someone let me know! I don't want to go through the rest of the year being confused by these articles! hahaha
posted by Katy @ 2:08 p.m.
1 Comments:
Katy, I think you are absolutely right. These Wikipedia articles seem to jump all over the place using different authors with different opinions. I find this very difficult to read as well because different people have different styles of writing and when you jump from persons' ideas to persons' ideas it makes it very confusing as to what their saying. I think to myself "Is this the same person or is this another persons' ideas now"? However, I find the other articles that we are reaidng (not wikipedia, by one author only) much easier to comprehend and digest when it comes to writing our little essays. Just a thought.
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